So, I have two keyboard layouts, one is English, another one is Ukrainian, the problem is - that when I launch the game with Ukrainian keyboard - it also changes the action buttons in the game, which is not a bug, but more of intended feature, and I get it, the problem is - I want to ONLY see Latin letters, not CYRILIC_SHORTI instead of letter Q, so, is it possible to somehow disable this letter switch?

Distribution: Fedora Workstation 42
Steam: Steam RPM Fusion version, non-flatpak
DE: GNOME 48

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So I’m currently going through and adding all the games I had installed on an external drive. I decided to use Faugus Launcher after some trial and error with other launchers, and I’ve managed to get about two thirds of my games working so far. One of them is Clair Obscure: Expedition 33.

I’ve got a bunch of old save files for these games and was wondering if I can just drop them into the new save folders, but I’m having trouble even finding where those folders are located. I seriously have no clue where to look.

I literally just switched from Windows today, and I’m already knee deep in frustration, from setting up Wine prefixes to Avowed (a separate game) throwing fatal error pop-ups at me, to somehow breaking the bottles application lmaooo IDEK how I did that but here we are. I’ve been on Windows for like 20 years. I was that gamer kid since day one, but I’m just so done with Windows. I almost didn’t make the switch because so many of the games I play use anti-cheat, but I figured I had to rip the band-aid off at some point.

Anyway, enough lore drop. I’m just trying to figure out where to look for game save files on Linux (I’m using Nobara, for reference). My naive 'Windows brained' self clearly didn’t do enough research. Please forgive me for my sins!

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I've tried countless distros. I've been testing Linux distros for many years on an old PC (i7 3770 + Rx 5700). I would test them for a couple months at best, then go back to installing windows because of incompatibility issues, crashes, apps not working and generally just not a very user friendly or beginner friendly experience. My favorite ones were Pop and Opensuse for performance. But they would give me issues.

Zorin OS has been under my radar for some years but I never got to test it. I regret not doing so.

The experience is flawless. Everything JUST WORKS OUT OF THE BOX. I have not used the terminal, not once. Everything is easy to install, games run extremely smoothly (I have doubled the fps I had on this system while using windows).

I think this is it. I really think Zorin is the OS windows users can safely install without worrying about facing the usual "problems" new users meet with Linux. There is barely any learning curve involved.

10/10.

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Hi everyone,

I’m new to Linux and I’ve just installed Ubuntu and Lutris. Everything seems to work fine, but I can’t see Steam as a source. I tried reinstalling Lutris and running system updates, but Steam still isn’t listed. I also tried to turn on the "Steam for Windows" but nothing happens.

https://preview.redd.it/ctzbeebowgxf1.png?width=771&format=png&auto=webp&s=aa45d5edb92449895c81e82044a48893d02e4690

https://preview.redd.it/m07tefbowgxf1.png?width=771&format=png&auto=webp&s=2b3a52374685be6d9665e407f1056fbe6c8f5caa

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Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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I've tried linux so many times but always run into major issues. Can't install windows 11 or enroll in extended updates for 10 so I'm stuck. I currently live away from my partner so we stream games over discord regularly when we can't see each other. I've tried it on Linux but discord runs so badly it's impossible. OBS through discord has high latency and game audio doesn't work. Steam game streaming just doesn't work at all. Are there any other options that work? It's what made me give up trying linux for the third time. Gaming is otherwise bearable.

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System information:

OS: POP!_OS 22.04
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1400
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

I've recently started using Linux for gaming, now dual booting with Windows, and I've not had the best experience. I've already tried Bazzite, Nobara and now Pop!_OS in the quest of finding a stable OS that allows me to play Overwatch 2 (and other games) without a problem. I can play it on Windows with 130-140FPS and I now managed to make it work at around 120 FPS in GNOME with some occasional fps spikes.

The problem is that I'm kinda hating gnome, from the looks to the usability, and I'd really like to make KDE Plasma work. In KDE Plasma I'm getting around 30-40 FPS with the same configurations as GNOME (I followed this tutorial and made sure I had the right NVIDIA drivers and all that):

1. The problem seems to be mainly the CPU usage (30-40% in Windows, 70%+ in KDE Plasma)
2. I blocked Wayland since I read it could affect performance, and I am running KDE Plasma on X11
3. I'm running the game with gamemoderun
4. I'm running the game with ProtonGE (the latest version)
5. I've enabled the Perfomance power option
6. I've gone through a ton of comments in the ProtonDB website, trying different launch options, but running simply "gamemoderun %command%" as given me the best performance yet

Besides the performance issue, I also hear crackling noises when running Overwatch with KDE Plasma. There's an easy launch option that fixes that, so it's not really a problem, but it might indicate some specific problem that might be affecting the performance.

I'd be grateful if someone could provide some tips that might help. I'm talking mainly about Overwatch since it's the game that has given me the most headaches and also what I'm planning to play the most, but I've also noticed performance problems in CS2 and Split Fiction.

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Hi! I am currently rocking this build https://fi.pcpartpicker.com/list/bqQggn and planing to upgrade to the Intel Arc B580. I use wayland and mainly just play minecraft, but i would like to be able to play other games also. Is the B580 viable for use under linux?

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I'm thinking of getting a elgato stream deck and cannot decide which one I want.

Either the 15 key one or the 32 key one. I know I don't want the baby one. the one with the dials looks handy but idk if we have software support for it yet.

I mostly want it for home assistant integration but also for triggering certain things within my OS. I don't stream, just play single player local games but tying into OBS might be useful.

I'm curious to see what others here use and mainly what software backend works for them. I'm thinking of using this companion program to handle it or one called OpenDeck.

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(Idk what flair to add, and idk if it's the right subreddit so feel free to remove the post if not.)

So I have a certain situation:

I have a lenovo thinkbook (16 gb of RAM, 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1335U × 12, and a lot of storage) and so far I've been using ubuntu (Still a beginner, but I know what sudo is, I know not to do "sudo rm -rf", and similar basics), but recently I started college (in the field of cybersecurity) and I was told that I ought to install kali linux.

However there are some things that are making me feel uncertain about what is the best option for me:

1. I'd like to be able to play some games (particularly minecraft on my college mc server) but kali is not good for gaming

2. I don't know how dual-boot will affect performance both for ubuntu and kali

3. On my old pc virtual machines were a bit troubling and I couldn't figure out why.

So I have a few options and I'd like somebody to give me some advice:

-clean install of kali and playing games on kali (not good)

-virtual machine with kali linux

-dual-boot

-staying on ubuntu and giving future me troubles because things are workings on other students' computers but not on mine, beacuse I don't have kali (professor told us that we'll be using many tools that come pre-installed on kali)

I'm asking for advice on what would be the best option for me, and if it's dual-boot or VM's: how much ram and disk storage should I assign to each OS/ vm. (But please don't tell me to install windows)

Thanks in advance

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I found out that vsync drastically increases battery life en decreases fan noise on my Framework 16 laptop and that fps is still very nice. That being said: I can set vsync in settings of Plasma (default is off) or I can set it in-game most of the time...

The laptop uses a AMD CPU and a dGPU from AMD. I mostly play games via Proton.

Question: is one better than the other? Are there any downsides to any?

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After installing mint, games worked great, even better than in Windows 11, but after a couple hours of the system running, cpu usage becomes really low and gpu cranks up to around 99% usage, impacting heavily the fps, in this case, from 120 stable to some 34 fps with a lot of latency. Using gamemode did not change anything neither switching the proton version. The only thing that makes it work correctly again for a couple hours is restarting the system.

System info:

Kernel: 6.14.0-33-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc

Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.8 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0

Distro: Linux Mint 22.2 Zara base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble

Machine:

Type: Desktop System: ASUS product

Mobo: ASUSTeK model: TUF GAMING B550-PLUS WIFI II

CPU:

Info: 6-core model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled

arch: Zen 3 rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 16 MiB

Speed (MHz): avg: 3915 high: 4447 min/max: 400/4465 boost: enabled cores: 1: 4447 2: 3579

3: 3735 4: 3557 5: 3654 6: 3554 7: 4216 8: 4442 9: 4403 10: 3556 11: 4038 12: 3804

Graphics:

Device-1: AMD Navi 23 [Radeon RX 6650 XT / 6700S 6800S] vendor: XFX driver: amdgpu v: kernel

arch: RDNA-2 pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, DP-3, HDMI-A-1

Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu

unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1

Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.14 GiB used: 5.6 GiB (18.0%)

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Hi everyone

I’m running TrueNAS Community Edition 25.04 with kernel 6.12.15

and I recently installed a Sparkle Intel Arc A380 in my NUC 9 Extreme (NUC9i9QNX). The GPU works perfectly for hardware transcoding (Jellyfin → FFmpeg), but there’s no temperature or power telemetry exposed.

intel_gpu_top shows engine activity and frequency correctly, but no temperature or power lines, and there’s no /sys/class/drm/card0/device/hwmon/ directory at all.

Example output:

Intel DG2 (Gen12) @ /dev/dri/card0 – 1398/2446 MHz ENGINES BUSY Video 63% VideoEnhance 20%

Question: Is CONFIG_DRM_I915_HWMON (and other related CONFIG_HWMON options) currently disabled in the TrueNAS kernel build? If so, is there a plan to enable it in upcoming versions (e.g. TrueNAS 25.10) so that Intel Arc GPUs can report temperature and power and use proper fan control?

It looks like the kernel is already new enough (6.12) for DG2 telemetry, so I’m guessing it’s just a missing compile-time flag. Would appreciate any confirmation or roadmap info from the iX team.

Thanks! 🙏

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is that true?

https://preview.redd.it/yzbp0sa7cgxf1.png?width=1003&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb999beccd842f9a5835c7b17020c65b18afbdc5

I thought Vanguard had basically killed Riot games on Linux, but I just got this reply from a support ticket I opened.

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New here- I'm probably not exactly unique in wanting to switch to Linux as a gamer following the Windows 10 end of support.

My current desktop doesn't seem to support Windows 11, and frankly I'm getting sick of Microsoft's nonsense. Between pushing my documents, desktop, and random game files onto a cloud storage system I didn't even want, putting ads on the start menu, and generally having been trying to be a proprietary monolith since before I was even alive, this final straw has pushed me to look into doing what I should've done a long time ago.

I'm a grumpy mid-30s gamer with about two thirds of a computer science degree (and hopefully soon, a decent programming/cybersec career). I feel like I should be more familiar with Linux than I am. But besides dabbling very lightly on virtual machines, I can't say I am.

With Linux getting a lot more gaming support in recent years and Microsoft being ever more obnoxious to put up with, I think it's well past time to change that.

So I'm looking for advice, tips, and general info as someone who predominantly understands Windows.

If I install Linux (and any distro advice is appreciated although I don't know how much real difference it makes day to day?), what changes do I need to get used to in day-to-day usage? And what do you wish someone had told warned?) you about before changing?

I'm expecting things to be relatively seamless- I use Firefox already with my bookmarks and passwords saved in the cloud. I can move all the important stuff on my boot drive onto another drive temporarily (I still have multiple old HDDs/SSDs connected in). My downloaded Steam games are mostly on my bulk hard drive rather than my boot SSD, but I'm prepared to have to re-download most of them. Are Steam Cloud saves cross-platform?

So I'm putting a lot of that out there because I find the best way to test my assumptions is to list them in a room full of expert subject nerds and letting them correct me on anything I'm getting wrong. (We all love doing that right?)

So besides all that. Suppose I've got my new Linux install up and running, what so I need to do? What's going to take getting used to? I know a lot of Linux users tend to use the command line for a lot of stuff- is that just about convenience or is there not always a good GUI? Any kind of references or help sheets anyone might recommend?

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Hello, I've been trying to make heroic games run via steam on running inside a standalone gamescope session, but although the games appear to load, they're rendering outside of the screen as I can hear the audio, but all I see is the steam overlay.

I'm running arch and my system is full AMD with a 5700x with a 7800XT. steam and gamescope are both installed from the pacman official repos.

I'm running my gamescope session with steam like this:

/usr/bin/gamescope --mangoapp --adaptive-sync --hdr-enabled -r 120 -e -- /usr/bin/steam -steamdeck -steamos3

I've tried installing heroic either by AUR (not even heroic loads on screen) and flatpak (heroic does load on screen, but spawned games don'

I can make the screen render by disabling the steam integration removing the -e from the gamescope command, but that makes me lose the steam overlay, which is not great.

Tried to go for AI to get some clues, but all the LLMs sent me through rabbitholes on trying to force X11 sessions and sharing sockets and display environment variables which were probably unrelated. But it does look like it knows that the problem is that heroic is trying to render somewhere else other than the gamescope virtual screen.

I wonder if someone got this working as it should be a pretty common use case to add heroic games to steam whilst running in a gamescope session. I wonder how the steam deck manages to make that work.

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